If you don’t, no need to reply telling me you don’t. I live in the woods with some critters. I live pretty far from neighbors/police so having a gun gives me peace of mind. I also hunt and consider myself a gun hobbiest. I enjoy shooting targets, cleaning/organizing, reloading and earning food with guns.
It’s half and half. There are occasionally kidnappings and armed robberies where I live so I’m grateful to have the right to defend myself, it’s good to be prepared for any unforseen disaster that might befall us, and I think firearm ownership is an important political right (it seems very suspicious that some of the people who are most eager to impose their political ideas on the rest of us are also very eager to ban one of the tools we might use to stop them). But honestly I just like guns, shooting is fun and I do it competitively, they’re interesting machines to study and tinker with and they have a lot of interesting military history attached to them.
Yeah user Treczoks in here is particularly suspicious on that front.